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Friday. It's beginning to get a bit nippy now. I think what summer we had is now history.
Three runs to the tip yesterday with garden waste, one more to do today, then the hedge has to be tackled, that will be another load. I know how to have fun. But that ain't it!
Have a happy day everyone.
Three runs to the tip yesterday with garden waste, one more to do today, then the hedge has to be tackled, that will be another load. I know how to have fun. But that ain't it!
Have a happy day everyone.
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In my garden the hedge is the only thing which ever gets tackled (because it was planted too close to the footpath and easily overgrows it). I usually wait until the council has sent me several nasty letters (or, last year, when they sent out a team to cut it back, free of charge) or someone knocks on my door and offers to cut it for a reasonable fee. Other than that, I've not touched a thing in my garden since I moved in 26 years ago! (I absolutely HATE any 'ongoing' task. I can do things like building computers, where there's a definite endpoint but I simply can't cope with something that never ends).
Interestingly though, the three council guys who cut my hedge back took two full days to do the task. The father-&-son team (possibly travellers) who I paid to do the same job recently did it just as well in under half an hour!
[Good morning, BTW!]
Interestingly though, the three council guys who cut my hedge back took two full days to do the task. The father-&-son team (possibly travellers) who I paid to do the same job recently did it just as well in under half an hour!
[Good morning, BTW!]
Hi Boaty.
I'm a bit tired after picking up a friend from Stansted airport. It should have been a simple matter of leaving here at half past 10, collecting him at around midnight and dropping him off in Ipswich about an hour later. However his flight departed 1½ hours behind schedule, so I didn't set out until later than planned. I then found that there was a road closure (with a 20 mile detour), plus a massive queue to get into the pick-up point at the airport (£3.50 for 10 minutes parking) before I had to find an alternative (winding) route back home.
All of that was accomplished in a car with a dodgy gearbox before dropping off my friend in Ipswich at 3.20, leaving my car at a local garage at 3.40 (putting the key through the letterbox) and walking the last half mile home.
It's going to cost me around £300 for a new clutch plate and labour, on top of roughly £300 I've already paid for a secondhand gearbox so, when I got home, I decided it was time for a glass or two of vino!
It's not all bad news though. Later today I'll be here (together with my Italian friend that I collected from Stansted and another mate):
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If it's anything like last year's event, it will be VERY, VERY SILLY!
I'm a bit tired after picking up a friend from Stansted airport. It should have been a simple matter of leaving here at half past 10, collecting him at around midnight and dropping him off in Ipswich about an hour later. However his flight departed 1½ hours behind schedule, so I didn't set out until later than planned. I then found that there was a road closure (with a 20 mile detour), plus a massive queue to get into the pick-up point at the airport (£3.50 for 10 minutes parking) before I had to find an alternative (winding) route back home.
All of that was accomplished in a car with a dodgy gearbox before dropping off my friend in Ipswich at 3.20, leaving my car at a local garage at 3.40 (putting the key through the letterbox) and walking the last half mile home.
It's going to cost me around £300 for a new clutch plate and labour, on top of roughly £300 I've already paid for a secondhand gearbox so, when I got home, I decided it was time for a glass or two of vino!
It's not all bad news though. Later today I'll be here (together with my Italian friend that I collected from Stansted and another mate):
https:/
If it's anything like last year's event, it will be VERY, VERY SILLY!
Chris I get days like that. You're celebration looks excellent. I've been to a few of them. Me and a couple of friends, when we were stationed in Germany, took some leave and drove down to Munich for the two week beer festival. Great fun. When it came time to go back, we couldn't remember where we'd parked the car! We had to get the police to find it for us. They are well used to that! They gave us a lift to the carpark on the edge of the city. A great fortnight though!
Minty:
I doubt that a fire in London/Hertfordshire would affect travel between Suffolk and Essex!
However the people who put out the diversion signs tonight might know something that I don't anyway. There were TWO major routes closed, each with their own diversion signs, pointing in opposite directions! I got to the turn-off (from the A12) for Stansted and then followed what I thought were the correct signs for the diversion (taking me back several miles along the road I'd just driven down). Upon reaching the road I thought that I'd been diverted to, I found that it was also closed, with yet more diversion signs. Without a bit of local knowledge I could have been driving around in circles for hours!
;-)
I doubt that a fire in London/Hertfordshire would affect travel between Suffolk and Essex!
However the people who put out the diversion signs tonight might know something that I don't anyway. There were TWO major routes closed, each with their own diversion signs, pointing in opposite directions! I got to the turn-off (from the A12) for Stansted and then followed what I thought were the correct signs for the diversion (taking me back several miles along the road I'd just driven down). Upon reaching the road I thought that I'd been diverted to, I found that it was also closed, with yet more diversion signs. Without a bit of local knowledge I could have been driving around in circles for hours!
;-)
I'm trying to keep up here!
Boaty:
While our little local 'Oktoberfest' is obviously far more low-key than the big one you went to, I know that it will still be fun. (We're going to the 5pm to 8pm session which, with the strength of the beer that they'll be serving, will be quite long enough for me!)
Boaty:
While our little local 'Oktoberfest' is obviously far more low-key than the big one you went to, I know that it will still be fun. (We're going to the 5pm to 8pm session which, with the strength of the beer that they'll be serving, will be quite long enough for me!)
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